NHS: Migrant Workers
(asked on 3rd June 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of trends in the level of NHS healthcare workers (a) recruited from overseas and (b) trained in the UK.
This question was answered on 10th June 2026
We want the NHS to have the workforce it needs to deliver high-quality care. We value the expertise overseas staff provide, while building a more sustainable domestic workforce. International recruitment has fallen sharply in recent years, and the 10-Year Health Plan sets an ambition to reduce it to under 10% by 2035 by recruiting and retaining more homegrown staff, and prioritising UK medical graduates for training places.
We want the NHS to have the workforce it needs to deliver high-quality care. We value the expertise overseas staff provide, while building a more sustainable domestic workforce. International recruitment has fallen sharply in recent years, and the 10-Year Health Plan sets an ambition to reduce it to under 10% by 2035 by recruiting and retaining more homegrown staff, and prioritising UK medical graduates for training places.